逐句精讲新概念三: 第38课最早的日历

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lesson38 The first calendar 最早的日历

　　　　新概念3课文内容：

　　Future historians will be in a unique position when they come to record the history of our own times. They will hardly know which facts to select from the great mass of evidence that steadily accumulates. What is more, they will not have to rely solely on the written word. Films, videos. CDs and CD-ROMs are just some of the bewildering amount of information they will have. They will be able, as it were, to see and hear us in action. But the historian attempting to reconstruct the distant past is always faced with a difficult task. He has to deduce what he can from the few scanty clues available. Even seemingly insignificant remains can shed interesting light on the history of early man.
Up to now, historians have assumed that calendars came into being with the advent of agriculture, for then man was faced with a real need to understand something about the seasons. Recent scientific evidence seems to indicate that this assumption is incorrect.
　　Historians have long been puzzled by dots, lines and symbols which have been engraved on walls, bones, and the ivory tusk of mammoths. The nomads who made these markings lived by hunting and fishing during the last Ice Age, which began about 35,000 B.C. and ended about 10,000 B.C. By correlating markings made in various parts of the world, historians have been able to read this difficult code. They have found that it is connected with the passage of days and the phases of the moon. It is, in fact, a primitive type of calendar. It has long been known that the hunting scenes depicted on walls were not simply a form of artistic expression. They had a definite meaning, for they were as near as early man could get to writing. It is possible that there is a definite relation between these paintings and the markings that sometimes accompany them. It seems that man was making a real effort to understand the seasons 20,000 years earlier than has been supposed.

　　新概念英语3逐句精讲：

　　1.Future historians will be in a unique position when they come to record the history of our own times.

　　未来的历史学家在写我们这一段历史的时候会别具一格。

　　语言点1:句子结构分析:when引导时间状语从句，从句中的of our own times充当history的后置定语。

　　语言点2:come to do的意思是“要做”。

　　2.They will hardly know which facts to select from the great mass of evidence that steadily accumulates.

　　对于逐渐积累起来的庞大材料，他们几乎不知道选取哪些好。

　　语言点1:句子结构分析:which引导宾语从句，交代know的内容。That引导定语从句，修饰evidence。

　　语言点2:hardly know可直译“几乎不知道”。

　　3.What is more, they will not have to rely solely on the written word.

　　而且，也不必完全依赖文字材料。

　　语言点1:句子结构分析:what is more为承上启下的过渡语。